Juan Isaac Cook ( Spanish: Juan Isaac Cooke ; July 29, 1895 , La Plata , Argentina - June 23, 1957 , Punta del Este , Uruguay ) - Argentine diplomat and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1945-1946.
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| The president | Edelmiro Julian Farrell | ||||||
| Predecessor | Cesar Amegino | ||||||
| Successor | Juan Ortensio Chihano | ||||||
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| Predecessor | Juan Ortensio Chihano | ||||||
| Successor | Hector Vernengo Lima | ||||||
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| Predecessor | Hector Vernengo Lima | ||||||
| Successor | Juan Atilio Bramulla | ||||||
| Birth | July 29, 1895 La Plata (city) , Argentina | ||||||
| Death | June 23, 1957 (61 years old) Punta del Este , Uruguay | ||||||
| Father | Genaro William Cook-i-Arosemena | ||||||
| Mother | Maria Aurelia Lusiani i Kouso | ||||||
| Spouse | Maria Elvira Lenzi Alvarez de Toledo | ||||||
| Children | John William Cook , Carlos Federico Cook, Jose Luis Cook, Jorge Felix Cook | ||||||
| The consignment | Civil Radical Union , Updated Civil Radical Union , Hustisialist Party | ||||||
| Education | National University of La Plata | ||||||
| Profession | lawyer | ||||||
| Religion | Catholic | ||||||
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Biography
Born in the family of a famous dentist, son of an Irish emigrant [1] .
He graduated from the law department of the National University of La Plata and taught at the University of Buenos Aires for many years.
From youth he was a member of the Radical Civil Union .
In 1922 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Government of the Province of Buenos Aires . In 1938 he was elected to parliament.
After the coup of 1943, he briefly retired from political activity, but the very next year he became adviser on international politics to the military government of E.H. Farrell ,
In August 1945 he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship . In this post, he mainly focused on demonstrating to the governments of the Allied Powers that Argentina is not fascist . [2]
During the foreign policy confrontation of the government with the Allied powers, he was briefly replaced as Minister, but was returned again in October (he was replaced by Hector Vernengo Lima , one of the leaders of the allied powers' supporters, Commander-in-Chief of the Argentine Navy ). However, a powerful public demonstration on October 17, 1945 meant the defeat of this group and the triumph of the rival group Juan Domingo Peron . Cook has been reinstated.
For cooperation with Peron was expelled from the Radical Union. He became one of the founders of the new party, the Renewed Civil Radical Union , which supported the candidacy of H. D. Peron for the presidency.
As president, H. D. Peron appointed him ambassador to Brazil (November 1947 - September 1954), where Cook maintained very good relations with the government of Eurico Gaspar Dutra .
Later, he continued his diplomatic service and was the representative of Argentina at the UN (1954 - June 1955). Shortly before the overthrow of Peron, in 1955, he was appointed ambassador to Spain .
Exiled during the struggle against the legacy of peronism, he died two years later in exile in Punta del Este ( Uruguay ).
The father of the peronist politician and intellectual John Cook .
He is the author of books, including Politics of Argentina (1927), For Democracy (1938), and Towards the Political and Economic Unity of the Nation (1941).
Notes
- ↑ Curriculum Vitae of his grandfather, Isaac McKim Cook, on Irishgenealogy.com unopened (unavailable link) . Date of treatment January 31, 2019. Archived April 2, 2016.
- ↑ United States Economic Boycott Argentina , CEMA University